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Threats & Synergies

Aatrox

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Akali

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Cassiopeia

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Cho'Gath

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Darius

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Dr. Mundo

Tiny

Tiny: This lane favours you immensely and the enemy has close to zero kill pressure on you.
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Gangplank

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Garen

Tiny

Tiny: This lane favours you immensely and the enemy has close to zero kill pressure on you.
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Gnar

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Illaoi

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Irelia

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Jax

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Jayce

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Kayle

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Kennen

Extreme

Extreme: The opponent has kill pressure on you in major portion of the game, while you have none.
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Kled

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Lissandra

Extreme

Extreme: The opponent has kill pressure on you in major portion of the game, while you have none.
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Malphite

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Maokai

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Nasus

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Olaf

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Ornn

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Pantheon

Extreme

Extreme: The opponent has kill pressure on you in major portion of the game, while you have none.
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Poppy

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Renekton

Extreme

Extreme: The opponent has kill pressure on you in major portion of the game, while you have none.
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Riven

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Rumble

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Ryze

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Shen

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Singed

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Sion

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Swain

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Teemo

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Trundle

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Tryndamere

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Viktor

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Vladimir

Major

Major: This lane can go either way depending on who has a lead.
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Volibear

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Wukong

Even

Even: This lane favours you but the enemy still has kill pressure on you.
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Yasuo

Minor

Minor: There is little kill pressure from the opponent in this lane.
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Hi, welcome to my Fiora guide. I'm Yamikaze, a Challenger Talon player. My peak rank is around 30 on the NA server and I ended rank 100 Challenger in Season 8.

I hope you find this guide helpful as you learn Fiora. I also study Econ/CS at Northwestern and stream / make YouTube videos in my spare time. If you have any questions or want to discuss Fiora (or League in general), I recommend checking out my Discord channel. We have a pretty cool community and I'd love for you to be a part of it :).

Hi, welcome to my Fiora guide. This guide is co-written with Forgotten Project, a Grandmasters Fiora main. He has 1.5 million mastery on Fiora across all his accounts, peaking top 400 in NA.

Fiora is a high risk, high reward champion. Requiring the player to hit the enemies from a certain angle to maximize damage. Fortunately, Fiora also has a high mobility kit, the movement speed buffs from hitting the vitals from Duelist's Dance and moving towards a target with Grand Challenge. Lunge is Fiora's gap closer which also helps proc'ing vitals. Although Fiora has to get deep into the heart of the battle to deal damage, her kit is not lacking when it comes to keeping her alive, the heal when proc'ing vitals Duelist's Dance, Riposte that can negate any damage(except for turret shots) for 0.75 seconds and the heal from Grand Challenge can often help her turn a losing fight around.

Fiora is very hard to master, but the feeling of success when making plays with this champion is definitely worth the time and patience. For those who like using high mobility champions ( Riven, Yasuo) and like to challenge themselves, Fiora is definitely the champion to go.

+++High potential damage+−+Continuously hitting vitals can maximize damage dealt and sustain through fights with the heal and movement speed.

+++High mobility+−+After level 9, Lunge has a CD of two to three seconds if she hits something, making her really mobile, and hitting vitals or moving while inside the range of ultimate will increase her movement speed.

+++Can often turn fights around+−+ Riposte makes Fiora invulnerable(except for turret shots) for 0.75 seconds as well as stun targets if they tried to hard CC her in the duration. If used well, it can negate most if not all bursts from a champion and can turn a rough fight in her favour.

+++Good mid game to late game damage+−+The passive Duelist's Dance and Lunge both have very high scaling, 4.5% bonus AD and 115% bonus AD respectively, as well as the crit on Bladework which doubles her damage for one auto attack. The low cooldowns on her abilities also mean that she is able to do more spell rotations than other champions in a shorter period of time.

+++Low mana costs early game+−+Her main ability Lunge costs only 20 mana at level 1, 30 mana at level 3, which means she can spam the ability without being out of mana that easily.

−−+Mistakes can be fatal+−+Enemies can take advantage of your high cooldowns if you somehow miss a Lunge or used Riposte, as it leaves you little to no defense against engages.

−−+A pain in the arse to master+−+ Fiora requires a lot a lot of practice and experience to be effective, while she has high potential damage, the player has to have a lot of skills to turn the potential damage to actual damage.

−−+Bad bad wave clear pre-tiamat+−+No area of effect abilities means that her wave clear is bad, buying at least a tiamat is essential for her to put up more lane pressure.

−++High early game abilities cooldown+−+ Riposte and Bladework both have high cooldowns early game, being 24 seconds and 13 seconds respectively, even her Lunge at level 1 has 6.4 seconds cooldown even if she hits somebody with it. If the opponents bait the abilities out and then fight you, you will be at a great disadvantage without both Riposte and Bladework.

−++Requires substantial game knowledge+−+ Fiora is a skirmishing champion, great for dueling and splitpushing. Knowing how to read the map greatly increases her effectiveness when splitpushing and dealing with incoming enemies.

Conqueror is a rune with extreme value, a long sword worth of AD at lv1 and turns your damage to true damage. There's not really a time when this rune reduces in value since the extra ad helps you a lot in your laning phase, and the true damage is a good source of damage against enemies who rush Bramble Vest and Ninja Tabi. The other runes simply cannot compare right now as they fall short in damage against tanks.
During laning phase, it is very easy for you to keep the buff up with attacking minions or poking enemy champions. But even if you were not able to stay in combat, it still recharges very fast, requiring you to only be in combat for 4 seconds. The low damage output from enemies during laning phase makes this an extremely valuable rune to take as you are almost guaranteed to make use of it.
In mid game to late game, this rune's value reduces a little since it doesn't help you survive if they focus on you. However, it is still fairly easy to proc as long as you position just a little bit more carefully and not be the first one to engage.

Triumph's effect compliments its condition the best out of the three options. Overheal simply doesn't work during laning phase, which is when you want to make the most use out of your runes, and while Presence of Mind also provides you bonuses after a takedown, Triumph provides you health which can be used to tank a few minion hits or an extra turret shot right after a fight and prevent you from dying.

Though Legend: Bloodline gives nothing at level 1, and only scales as the time goes on, this rune quickly ramps up giving you 12% at 20 stacks. It is a nice good to take as it improves your chances at survival by quite a bit. Legend: Alacrity provides attack speed right off the bat, which is free extra stat that you get to help you go through your laning phase. It also gives you extra chances to hit vitals with your auto attacks, as well as turret taking power. Legend: Tenacity doesn't work in laning phase at all because the enemy does not have enough cc for it to outvalue attack speed, and against teams where you should get tenacity, Mercury's Treads already gives you enough tenacity to protect yourself, getting any more tenacity will mean that you are cutting down the value of it because they add up multiplicatively.

Coup de Grace has the easiest requirements for extra damage out of the three, and it gives extra AD after a takedown. Cut Down only works against tanks, and only when they have 2-3 items, which means you will be down a rune if you take Cut Down for a long while, and you won't get any help from this rune to take down squishy targets. Last Stand simply doesn't make sense because usually you will fight when you are healthy, not when you are low on health. In situations where you are both low on health and you want to turn around for a fight, Coup de Grace will provide the extra 10% damage for this situation, on top of all the other situations where it will provide buffs.

With the removal of the AD bonus from Celerity, it's simply not worth to take it anymore. Transcendence allow you to get 30-40% CDR very quickly and also gives a nice AD bonus later on in the game.

Gathering Storm provides a steady source of AD with no extra requirement except for time. The AD value it gives is enough for you to be extremely strong mid game and stay relevant for longer, as you have less and less time to dish out damage in fights the longer a game goes.

Nimbus Cloak is a good rune against mobile champions who will try to out run your ultimate and re-engage. Examples of this include Jayce and Rumble. This rune is more important in high elo than low elo however, since your opponents are more likely to try to kite you out. If you decide to take this rune, you should look to replace Gathering Storm rather than Transcendence as Transcendence gives you useful stats earlier.

Lunge start is the most usual and the most logical, since it is a dash without needing a target, it can be a versatile tool, either for escaping level one in case of an invade, early engages or backing off in case of a bad level one trade. It also has the lowest cooldown out of all her abilities, making her less vulnerable after she uses Lunge for farm or poke.

Riposte start is generally a bad choice because you can only hit one champion with it, and you cannot move in the duration, making you extremely vulnerable during an invade. And with its high cooldown, during level one trade, you will move certainly lose since you do not have your Lunge which is your main damage source early game. Smart enemies will take advantage of the long cooldown and bait out your Riposte and zones you out early.

Bladework start could be useful during invades since you can slow one champion down, allowing your teammates to catch up to them, but like Riposte start, you'll lose a lot of early game pressure and is usually not worth it unless you get a lot out of the invade.

Learning Riposte next helps you win level two trades since you can often negate one and even two spells from the enemy which is huge early game, or at least slow the enemy attack speed, which will easily win you a trade. And even after you use it, you will still have Lunge to trade or back off.

If you did not get Lunge at level one, level two should be when you get it, it applies a lot more pressure to the enemy and it helps you farm, a very useful ability to have.

Learning Bladework next is also viable if you know that you will absolutely win a trade even without Riposte, as it slows the enemy while still allowing you to move, plus the auto attack reset and the small crit allows more damage burst early game. However, Riposte is still the safer choice since it completely negates one attack from the enemy and slow down the enemy's attack for 1.5 seconds.

As with most other champions, at level three you should level up whatever spell you did not level up during at level one and two, which should be Bladework. Having all three spells at your disposal reduces the impact of mistakes where you miss an abiliity or two, plus it is often more efficient to have all spells at level one rather than have one at level two.

By this time, you should be able to start maxing out a second spell. The most usual spell to max right now should be Bladework, it lowers the cooldown on the abiliity substantially(from level one 13 seconds to level five 5 seconds), it allows you to slow the enemies even more and chase down running enemies with the already low cooldown Lunge.

Maxing Riposte next lowers the cooldown, but not by a huge margain(from level one 24 seconds to level five 16 seconds), it is generally not worth it as it only gives you a little bit more AP damage and the ability itself still has a long cooldown.

If you somehow did not max Lunge, now would be the time to start, the cooldown on this ability after leveling it up is extremely low(from level one 16 seconds{6.4 seconds if hit anything} to level five 8 seconds{3.2 seconds if hit anything}), and being the main damage source and utility, you should always have this ability leveled to level five as soon as possible.

Duelist's Dance reveals a vital on enemy champions in one of the four directions, attacking the champion from the vital's direction proc's it dealing percentage maximum health true damage, heals and gives Fiora a movement speed buff. It is the main source of damage from her kit, with most if not all of her abilities being centered around this ability. ( Lunge for easier proc on vitals, Bladework for slows and auto attack reset, and Grand Challenge which reveals four of these passives.)

Hitting vitals also serve as Fiora's main steroid as it gives her moderate amount of heal, healing 25HP per hit at level one and 110HP per hit at level 18, which is often enough to tank two or three more hits during a fight, and surprise your enemies with the sudden burst of health. The sudden burst of movement speed it gives when Fiora procs a vital allows her to go for the next vital easier or back off after a poke. Hitting as many vitals as you possibly can can help you win a lot of trades, I have forgotten the amount of times I had messed up a fight because I could not hit a vital. Practice is the key here.

Assume that the arrows represent the directions in which vitals appear.■■■↑←■■■→■■■↓
They will always alternate between ←■↓ and ↑■→, following that pattern.

Also, the first vital will always appear pointing towards ← or ↓, therefore if you are blue side, you can take advantage of this to trade early when you arrive in lane. Or if you are on red side, you can try to search for the enemy top laner before the minions arrive so that when you both arrive in lane, the vital will be pointed towards ↑ or →.

To start a trade, always make sure that the vital is pointed towards you, and you should try to use an auto attack to proc it instead of using Lunge, because using Lunge to proc the vital means that you cannot hit the vital that will then appear behind the enemy. So you should always try to auto attack to proc a vital, then Lunge behind them to proc the second vital, unless you are only trying to poke them.

Below is a map of the summoner's rift where green lines means you can dash through with Lunge and red lines means you cannot.

Lunge is a dash ability(the speed of which is determined by your current movement speed), which also deals damage(can target invisible targets as well) and applies on-hit effects(excluding auto-attack buffs from Bladework) on a single target nearby, priortizing vitals facing her, targets that would die from said Lunge, then champions and minions. Since you do not get to choose the targets yourself, you should not always rely on your Lunge to finish off your enemies.

For example, the enemy Darius is one hit away from dying, and you Lunge in trying to secure a kill, but the enemy Lee Sin came up and his vital is facing towards you, Lunge would hit Lee Sin instead of the low health Darius, but since you expected Lunge to kill Darius, you backed off instead of trying to secure the kill, and you missed an opportunity.

Hitting an enemy with Lunge will reduce the cooldown of the ability by 60%, therefore you should always try to hit a target to avoid the long cooldown, if you want to gap close to catch up to/finish off an enemy, but is too far away to hit them with Lunge, you should Flash first, then Lunge, or wait until their minions arrive or he runs next to monster creeps, then Lunge to them and Lunge again.

Since Lunge is the main damage source and utility for Fiora, ALWAYS make sure that this ability is up(or nearly up) before fighting the enemy, it provides damage, procs vitals and is a gap closer, fighting the enemy with it on cooldown takes away half of your fighting capability, and will lose you trades or even get yourself killed.

One last thing that you can do with Lunge, is to use short Q instead of a long Q. Since your Lunge hit range is much larger than your auto attack range, what you can do is to go up to a vital, and instead of Q-ing directly into the enemy and take an enemy spell rotation, you can instead try to hit the vital with a far away Q. This allows you poke without taking much damage in return, some enemies may also react by using their spell and missing you as they would predict that you would Lunge into them.

Riposte has a 0.75 seconds cast time, negating any damage(except for turret shots) or CC(including Ignite, Exhaust and Smite) thrown at her while casting, then launches a projectile forward which will stop at the first champion hit, slowing both their movement speed and attack speed. But if she manages to get hit by any hard CC, like Lissandra's Frozen Tomb or Orianna's Command: Shockwave while casting, then the champion hit by the resulting projectile will be stunned instead of slowed.

Riposte is an ability that can completely turn a fight around when used in the right time, creating amazing plays. But since it has a really high cooldown(24 seconds cooldown at level 1, down to 16 seconds cooldown at level 5), it can only be used sparringly, and once it's down, Fiora becomes vulnerable to damage and CC, and competent enemies will take advantage of that to engage on you.

Even though Riposte is best used to counter the enemy's CC and stun them instead, it does not always have to be used this way. Hitting the enemy and avoiding damage should be the highest priority, even if it means not riposting their CC. For example, riposting Darius's Crippling Strike or Trundle's Chomp is often more useful than riposting their Apprehend or Pillar of Ice.

If the enemy is obviously baiting you into using Riposte, like Irelia or Rek'Sai, then just hold onto your Riposte, even if they do CC you afterwards, and you did not react in time to avoid it, riposting them after the CC is finished will still reduce their attack speed, and significantly lower their combat effectiveness, and you will be able to easily beat them after that.

Riposte is a very strong ability by itself because of the attack speed slow, even if you do not parry any CC. Therefore, you should always hit your Riposte to get the debuffs off, otherwise, you will be put in an extreme disadvantage. Focusing on stunning the enemies should be your second priority.

Bladework resets the auto attack timer and increase the attack speed of the next two auto attacks, providing the first attack with a movement speed slow(but cannot crit) and a second one with a crit(120% damage at level 1 to 200% damage at level 5). The attacks also gain 25 auto attack range, buffing her auto attack range from 150 to 175 for two attacks.

Bladework is best used after you use your ultimate Grand Challenge on an enemy, since the slow and attack speed buff allow you to hit the vitals easier and faster, and will give you a significant burst of damage. But before level 6, it can be used to give a little bit more damage for trading since Lunge->AUTO-> Bladework is a very quick attack that usually gives the enemy little time to react, or to farm under turret.

Try to use Bladework after auto attacking, as it resets your auto attack timer and can give a slight burst to damage. Also, due to the high mana cost later into the game(60mana at level 5), it is not advised to spam the ability before team fights, as you will most certainly run out of mana mid fight, and it will severely impact your effectiveness in a fight.

Grand Challenge is another one of Fiora's abilities where she can absolutely turn a fight around, since proc'ing a vital provides her with heal, and deals tremendous amount of damage to the enemy, proc'ing all four in quick succession usually means she can turn a dire situation to a favourable one. This ability allows Fiora to often 1v2 successfully during ganks or splitpushes.

Since the ability has a low cooldown, especially after Fiora's CDR core build, do not be afraid to use it, even if you only managed to hit one vital or none at all, it is better to use it just in case rather than not and miss an opportunity. But it should only be used when both your Lunge and Bladework is up, as they help you proc the vitals much easier with the dash and auto attack buffs, ulting without the abilities up means you can only auto attack to proc the vitals, and you will likely not proc them at all.

Be aware of enemy's positioning when you ult them, if they try to stick close to a wall after you ult them, you will have a very low chance of hitting that vital, thus preventing you from hitting all four and activating the heal. Also, keep in mind that if you stick too close to the enemy, the vitals will not be proc'd even if you attack from a certain angle.

Even though Grand Challenge is a really strong ability, it does not actually damage the enemies directly, often require secondary input from the player to be impactful. Therefore, practicing hitting vitals is very crucial to using this ability successfully.

Special thanks to SpookyNeedle for inventing this name in the Fiora Mains club conversation.

Though, most of the time it is not recommended as stated above, Riposte should be used to block damage first and stun enemies second, if you Lunge Riposte, it means all you blocked is the said CC, and a disadvantage for being a squishy champion is that you will fall quickly if they focus you down.

As of Patch 9.2, the projectile of Riposte now matches the visuals, as opposed to it launching from where it was originally casted to the casted direction. Therefore, chasing people down with this combo is actually a viable option now.

Also, since the combo reduces the time that your champion will be standing still, it is actually very useful if you are running away, as you can Lunge away while simutaneously casting Riposte to slow the enemy advancing towards you while escaping. If your reaction time is fast enough, and you Lunge in to have a CC thrown towards you, just understand that you can still cast Riposte mid- Lunge, and that would have the same effect as if you are walking towards them and riposting enemy CC.

If you are close enough, there is a very easy method of proc'ing all four vitals in quick succession. Ult them, auto attack one vital, then quickly move to an adjacent vital to quickly proc it with Bladework since it resets auto attack timer, then Lunge to the opposite direction of where the remaining two vitals are still standing, which will proc one more vital, then move to the last vital and proc it with the second Bladework attack.

This combo is useful if you are ambushing unwary enemies, or to catch enemies off guard while they are chasing very close to you. The sudden burst of damage and healing will quickly turn a fight around or kill enemies very quickly. However, this require a lot of practice to pull off, since messing up an attack means you need to take extra time to readjust and that will allow the enemy to react appropriately, and that can be fatal at times.

Cheat Sheet for My Recommended Build

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→ Finish TF or leave as phage.

→ Pick a third offensive item.

→ Pick these depending on situation.

Starting items

Doran's Blade is a strong start since it gives health and AD, it provides you with a lot of early game tools for aggressive plays, useful for people who likes to play aggressive early game and apply pressure. However, this start is susceptible to poke champions, as you can only buy one Health Potion along with it. Therefore, you should consider starting with Doran's Shield into a poke matchup like Kennen or Pantheon and using its health regeneration to help you survive lane.

Get this if you have enough gold leftover, useful for Fiora to chase people down and proc vitals easier. Should be priortized if the enemy has already bought boots. But since it does not give you any combat stats, rushing boots is usually not recommended unless they also have boots or if you are ahead and confident.

This is an absolutely essential item for Fiora. Since Fiora has no wave clear at all, she must get this item as soon as possible to gain the much needed lane pressure. Since freezing is something that only very specific situations allow, it should not be a concern to you that buying Tiamat forces you to push.

Prioritized Items

With Essence Reaver reverted to being an ADC item, it is no longer viable in Fiora's kit. Ravenous Hydra returns as the priorty item, since it provides a lot of useful stats that Fiora needs, i.e AoE clear and sustain. It also provides 80 AD which is a lot for an item. It's straight forward build path also makes it easy for the Fiora player to finish it. It is extremely recommended to finish this item before moving onto the second one.

After Ravenous Hydra, you might want to get Phage before moving onto any item or finish Trinity Force. Having this item will allow you to chase down enemies more effectively, as well as gain some pressure in lane as you can kill a creep and try to run up to them to poke them. This is considered a core item rather than Trinity Force as it provides just enough that Fiora requires, while Trinity Force is an expensive option of which not every stat is useful.

Mid-game Item

Trinity Force seems like the next natural item to finish due to you already having Phage. If you do build it, you should buy Stinger first as your next component as it gives you more DPS than if you built Sheen. It also allows you to proc vitals more easily as it gives you more chances to do so. You may also choose to skip this item entirely to start towards your next item, as not every stat is useful on it.

This item is the second iteration of the previous Essence Reaver. It has increased in price while reduced in gold value, but it still remains a strong item for Fiora. Though not as impactful as being a first item, it provides enough damage output in the mid to late game that it should be considered equal to other offensive items such as Death's Dance. You may choose to skip Trinity Force for this item if you want.

This item is now considered core by some high elo Fiora players due to the change to its passive that allows you to heal off all damage sources, not just AD, which includes your passive. Since Fiora does about ~30% damage as true damage and ~60% as AD damage, you effectively heal ~50% more with Death's Dance now than before. Also gives quite a bit of useful stat to help you curve a little bit better into mid game to late game.

Please note: The threat levels only reflect the difficulty Fiora may have in lane, and does not reflect actual winrate against these champions.

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Kennen has both strong pokes and strong bursts, and his stuns cannot be parried. This makes him a very very tough matchup to the point where capable Kennen players will almost always win the matchup. Extreme caution is advised in the laning phase, and your goal should be to survive laning phase.

Lissandra has the tools to perma-push the wave, as well as escape from you every time that you try to engage. This makes it very hard for the Fiora player to do anything meaningful in lane other than try to survive the lane as long as possible.

laning phase

During the laning phase, there is absolutely no reason to even try to trade since Lissandra will be able to poke you out easily, with the possible exception of level 1 or 2, when she does not have a full set of spells yet, however, this is usually a cheese kill and does not really matter that much in the lane. Not giving her any chances to attack at all will make the lane easier for you later on.

First, try to not stick with your minions at all, and if there are no minions, do not get close to her Ice Shard range. Since most of her poke comes from her Ice Shard which has a very low cooldown and it get hit through minions, avoiding it is winning half the lane. Let the wave push towards the tower and wave clear and try to push for mid game.

Second, the important of keeping your health high is so that you do not get tower dove easily. One of the tactics the enemies may use in an oppressive lane is to push you under tower and then gank you when you are low on health. Especially when she gets her Frozen Tomb, it is extremely hard to get out of a tower dive situation without your jungler especially with half health. Recall often if you find yourself having trouble keeping your health up.

Third, since her other abilities, Ring of Frost and Glacial Path, have extremely high cooldowns, if Lissandra overextends without those abilities, it is possible for Fiora to fight her. If this does happen, Fiora should be able to get an easy kill since she lacks CC or dashes otherwise.

Pantheon's great poke and passive make him a tough champion to beat. Playing passive early game is highly recommended, Pantheon's early game prowess makes him one of the hardest early game matchups in the game. But his falling off in the mid game presents opportunity to turn the lane around quite easily.

laning phase

The trick to this lane is to simply wait and play really passive. There are no situations where you can out poke or out trade a Pantheon before level 6 in a normal circumstance. At level 1 – 5, you should look to staying way out of his range as to not get poked by his Spear Shot. But you should still get close enough to be able to get the experience. If he overextends to zone you from even getting the experience from the minions that are about to die, you should however look for a quick trade as the minions are killed to get the experience and quickly get away.

Keeping your health at full is very important in this matchup, as it prevents Pantheon from triggering the passive on his Heartseeker Strike, and prevents him from tower diving you as you are trying to cs. Losing a few cs is fine for early game as surviving it should be the main goal of the matchup, and the lane will push towards you eventually, allowing you a few cs.

When you are cs-ing under tower, you should look to auto attack the melee creeps and lunging to get the ranged minions, that way, Pantheon will not be able to poke you as easily as you will be safe under the turret's range. If he oversteps and gets his passive shot off by the tower, you can, if you are confident, quickly turn it around and do a quick trade and even kill him, but that requires you to have full health and that you have to maximize your damage.

After level 6, things get a bit easier because you now have kill potential on him. But you still have to remember that you should not get close enough when you are not ready to trade to not get poked and withered down before an opportunity comes. There are a few key points to note here when fighting against a Pantheon. These apply only to after level 6:

First, you should always not try to hit a vital when Aegis Protection is up, because it will refresh the CD of the vital, but it will not deal any damage, therefore negating one of your passive's damage. You should always try to hit away the Aegis Protection first, with either a Lunge or an auto attack, and then move to hit the vital. The same goes with your Bladework, if you hit Pantheon while he has Aegis Protection up, it will not have any effect.

Secondly, if he engages on you first with his Aegis of Zeonia, that is you have not used any spells or started attacking him yet, it becomes very easy to turn around and fight him as he just wasted one of his passive and the tool that lets him wait for CD during a fight. If he stuns you to engage, you should always look to turn around and do your spell rotation.

Thirdly, same with pre-6, if his passive gets shot off by a turret or a cannon minion, you should always look to fight him as he is without one passive. But with your ult, you can quickly capitalize on this mistake and kill him, as having one less passive means you can get your ult vitals off one attack earlier, which is important for you to kill him before he does.

Assuming that you did lane decently, and that you did not give up too many advantages, you should see that you will catch up in cs in the mid game and be able to apply much more pressure than he can. But you should always alert your team when Pantheon is level 6 and is missing from the lane, as he can also snowball from other lanes if he cannot snowball from you, and you should look to punish his roam by trying to keep the wave constantly pushed and take the turret when you can.

Renekton relies on early game burst to assert lane dominance, his abilities allow him to deal substantial damage to his opponent without them retaliating. Trading early game is not recommended with his sustain from Cull the Meek, and just a slight mistake will lead to him snowballing the lane.

Akali's rework gave her a lot more damage early game, making it insanely difficult to deal with especially with your high cooldowns early game. You must absolutely play around her shroud which gives her the advantage to get a first hit on you every trade.

Cassiopeia's strength against Fiora mostly comes from her Miasma, which makes you extremely vulnerable during fights. However, she is unable to out damage you as long as you are able to stick to her. Experienced players will flank her or flash on her to try to get a kill.

Gangplank should be considered a ranged matchup. A Gangplank player can zone you out easily while avoiding fights with his Remove Scurvy and Powder Keg. Though due to his high cooldowns, you may attempt to take advantage of this should the Gangplank overextend without his abilities.

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Gangplank is a champion with strong early trading power with his Q and W, which means that you should try not to fight him or get poked until you gained a few levels. At early levels, you have to be very careful not to get poked too much by his Q, which has only 5 seconds cooldown, making it something akin to Pantheon. He can often Q you twice or thrice if you try to go in, making it very hard to win the trade, especially since he can heal back up with Remove Scurvy.

Before level 6, it is advised to not trade with him at all, and just try to farm. His barrels and passive make chasing him hard, he will be able to make some distance between you and him when you engage with Lunge, and then shoot you again when you disengage. However, since he does not have any escape abilities, if he gets too close to you, you can still engage on him and get behind him with your Lunge, which makes getting away from you almost impossible unless he flashes. You can always try to get your jungler to help as he is very vulnerable to ganks.

After level 6, you can try to fight him since your ult gives you movement speed, which makes catching up to him easier. It is also advised to purchase a pair of boots to help with running through his ult. But when you fight, you have to be very careful about his barrels, which deal a lot of damage as well as resetting his passive. Therefore, if you can, you must always priortize last hitting the barrel rather than attacking him. If you ignore the barrels, Gangplank will easily outdamage you.

There is an easy way to deal with barrels, if he places a barrel down and stand next to it, expecting you not to go in, you can Lunge in, auto attack the barrel to kill it and then turn on Gangplank. They will not react fast enough to you taking out the barrel, and you will get an easy engage since he won't be able to use his barrel to help. But if you keep on fighting him, you have to also deal with the subsequent barrels. There are two ways to do it, one is to Riposte it, the second is to auto attack it once when it is at two health and then use your Bladework to reset auto attack and kill it. This way, he won't be able to kill the barrels as you can kill the barrels while they still have two health.

Illaoi's kill pressure comes from only her Test of Spirit. However, when she does land it, you will be pushed out of lane almost immediately. Therefore, it is critical that you try to dodge or Riposte it as many times as you can. Once she misses it though, the Fiora player should look to engage her.

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During the early game, you should always dodge her tentacles, they deal a lot of damage but they are very slow, therefore it is very easy to dodge either just by walking or using your Lunge. You should practice dodging her skillshots without boots as it will usually decide if she will dominate this lane early or not, buying boots will help since it gives you more movement speed to help you dodge them.

If you get hit by her Test of Spirit, you should, if you are close enough, engage her so that the soul will disappear faster, if she chooses to priortize the soul instead of you when you are engaging, then you will certainly win the trade since it deals only a portion of the damage back to you. Otherwise, if she tries to fight you, as long as you dodge her tentacles, then it should be an easy trade for you. If she is not closeby, you should always run outside the radius to prevent more damage from being dealt to you, but you must be careful not to be hit by any tentacles that will spawn nearby and attack you.

Before level 6, you should only use your Riposte to block her auto-attack or her Test of Spirit(if you are confident and close to her). You should always try to dodge her Tentacle Smash instead of riposting it since it will still heal her, you should also not try to parry her Harsh Lesson, as the resulting tentacles will slam on you while you are rooted by your Riposte, preventing you from escaping her tentacles.

After level 6, you should be able to easily fight all in her, since she does not have escape abilities, it makes it very easy for you to get your ult off. Her Leap of Faith is also very easy to parry, but you should make sure that you dodge the incoming tentacles after she ults, or else you will take a lot of damage and heal her as well. Overall, during the laning phase, you should not have a lot of problem against her unless you get his by her tentacles.

Jax has enough early game damage to hold his own, as well as a very good scaling curve. Even a bit of lead for Jax usually leads to a snowball situation. You must always try to fight him when Riposte is up, and only do a spell rotation per trade, since he will have stacked his passive and out trade you.

laning phase

During the laning phase, most matchups are initiated by Fiora, who tries to Lunge a vital off Jax, causing Jax to retaliate with Counter Strike, and occasionally, Leap Strike. The way to play this fight is first, while he has his Counter Strike up, you must not use any spells or stop to auto him at all. Keep running until his Counter Strike is up or he moves out of range or otherwise reactivate it. Since you will deal no damage to him at all, there is no reason for you to stay within his melee range and take free damage.

Secondly, there is no reason for you to predict when he is going to reactivate his Counter Strike early, since if he does so, he wastes a second of it and you can simply reengage him while he does not have it up. If you decide to use Riposte, and it is generally recommended so, you should always wait until he has less than 0.5-0.75s of his Counter Strike left to Riposte. Since he does not have a choice not to reactivate the stun at the end of the duration, he will either have to back off or have his Counter Strike blocked. Either way, you should then try to fight as much as you can to try to get more damage off him.

Thirdly, you must keep track of his passives, both his Relentless Assault and Grandmaster's Might at all time. If he has his passive stacked or is waiting to use his third auto on you, you must respect this damage. While Jax can dish out a lot of sustained damage, he also has a lot of burst damage, and he can easily chunk you for half of your health before you can react if you are not careful.

Overall, Jax is a very tough matchup due to his high damage output throughout the game. A small lead will allow him to snowball very easily especially with his lower cooldowns towards the mid game.

Jayce has more than enough damage to one shot you if you misstep, making this a very dangerous matchup. Since both champions are damage dealers, snowballing can happen to either side's favour. Careful positioning and capitalizing mistakes are essential in winning this matchup.

Malphite is tough to lane against early game due to his spammable spells. You don't really have much kill pressure on you due to him having both Seismic Shard and Ground Slam that reduces your chances of getting any meaningful attacks in. His high base damage also means that he can easily poke you out and then one shot you if you misplay.

Olaf at level 1 can beat almost everyone including Fiora, therefore the first thing you should do in lane is to give up any early aggression. The earliest time you can try to fight him is at level 2, when you get your Riposte, but since usually he will have built up a minion wave by now, it is advised to try to fight him once the minion wave crashes to your turret and the wave has been reset.

A couple of things to note in this matchup. First, if you do not have all your spells up, you must absolutely not fight him, especially Riposte. Since he has a lot of sustained damage, you should try to finish each fight as soon as possible, and that means putting him low by bursting him. You should try to Riposte either his Undertow or Reckless Swing, which Olaf players don’t really care about throwing down at you, so using Riposte at the start of the fight or once he picks up his axe will usually net you some damage mitigation.

Secondly, you should try to lead the fight as far away from the axe as possible. Since he gets a lot of cooldown back for his Undertow if he picks up his axe, it is very much possible to out trade him if he does not get his axe back. If he does walk back to pick up his axe, that is precious time you have to try to damage him even more, allowing you to win the fight. Therefore, you should try to fight him if he throws his Undertow a little too hard.

Thirdly, at level 6, you should be extremely careful as your Riposte does not slow down his attack speed anymore, while he gains movement speed and attack damage. At this point, if you do fight, it is very important that you Riposte a spell, as well as be able to proc your vitals as soon as possible, since he can easily burst you down with all the buffs he get. Starting the fight with full health is also very important to try to give you time to heal up during the fight.

Overall, this matchup is extremely timing dependent. Recognizing and avoiding his damage is key to winning this matchup, especially when he has Ignite, which further boosts his damage and reduce your sustain in fight.

Riven has a very high damage output with even just a slight lead, especially when they rush Essence Reaver. Though Fiora has a higher damage output early game, Riven players usually are able to get out of trades easily even if they are caught, making it harder to gain any lead on them.

Teemo has a high damage output especially once he gets his Noxious Trap. The Fiora player should always try to stay out of range out his pokes and only going in when all spells are up. However, Fiora should only take meaningful trades to push Teemo out of lane in one fight or she will be left with little health to deal with a second trade.

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This lane is much easier to play before Teemo hits 6 and gets his Noxious Traps. Therefore, you should try to gain as much advantage as you can before this happens.

While Teemo is a ranged champion, he only has 500 range and does not have any dashes. You should exploit this as well as his low health early game by playing aggressively early. In the first couple of levels, you should look towards stacking your conqueror, getting a favourable vital and then engaging them. One whole combo is usually able to chunk Teemo to half to one-third of his health, easily pushing him out of lane. There are few things to note when doing this however.

First, though it would be best, it is not necessary to use Riposte to counter the Blinding Dart, but you must hit Teemo with it. This slows Teemo allowing you the much needed time to catch up to him. Being hit with Blinding Dart does not mean you lose the fight, as you can simply wait through the duration and keep on fighting. However, if you do get hit by Blinding Dart, you must stop attempting to auto attack him as you should simply use the time to walk besides him, making it hard for you to get away from you once the blind effect ends. This is especially if you have Bladework up, both effects are extremely important to win the fight, and if you use it while you are blinded, you will lose the attack while simultaneously missing the effect.

Second, every fight that you initiate you must try to see it through the end. If you simply try to poke him with your Lunge, he will retaliate easily with his ranged attacks, making it extremely unfavourable for you. Teemo is much more oppressive when you are low on health since you cannot effectively burst him down with his Blinding Dart and Move Quick. This leaves you in a bad situation where you won’t be able to play aggressively anymore.

Third, once he gets his Noxious Trap, you should look towards pushing the wave with Tiamat as fast as you can, and then roaming around. While getting Oracle Lens helps, it does not stop the shrooms from exploding if he places them on a minion wave, or at his feet. It makes fights extremely risky, and the easier solution is to simply not engage anymore.

Tryndamere has one of the highest base stats of all champions in the game, his passive also grants him immense early game strength, being able to crit randomly. The matchup depends on if the Fiora player is able to take advantage of small time frames when Tryndamere does not have his passive stacked.

Vladimir has good range on Fiora, and his Sanguine Pool and Tides of Blood make it easy for him to disengage should the Fiora player try to trade back. He also scales really well into the mid game where his abilities have minimum cooldowns while having considerable damage.

Cho'Gath's high base damage in the first couple of levels make it very hard for you to get a good trade. However, due to his high cooldowns, if you manage to evade his attacks and gap close to him, you may find yourself an easy kill.

Darius is a champion that can punish mispositions very well, since he can keep you in range with his attacks. But since he requires time to stack his damage, the Fiora player can attempt to disengage before he can rack up his damage meter.

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Darius has very high base damage early game, it is very important that you do not let him take advantage of his passive, which grants him ~30 AD early game when stacked. You should not fight him level 1 ever, especially if he takes his Crippling Strike first, which allows him to auto reset and stack faster. And since you won't have your Riposte at level 1, you won't be able to prevent him from stacking his passive. He can easily kill you at level 1 if you try to fight him.

However, at level 2, when you have your Riposte, you can try to fight him when he uses his Decimate by lunging inside the handle range, so that he will deal less damage with his Q as well as not gain a stack. After that, you should try to riposte his auto-attack Crippling Strike reset and slow down his attack speed, which will most likely make him unable to stack his passive, and you can easily win the trade because he will have no abilities left and no stacks.

You should always try to Lunge inside his Decimate handle range rather than riposting it. Since it will still heal him if the blade hits you, and Riposte is better used to block his Crippling Strike/auto attack rather than his Decimate since it can be dodged fairly easily. You should never try to predict his Apprehend either, since it has a pretty low cast time and does not deal any damage.

You should not fight prolonged fights with him unless you are absolutely certain you can kill him, otherwise, after he stacked his passive, he will gain a lot more burst, and can easily kill you with a few hits. Especially after level 6, where he can deal ~300 true damage to you with fully stacked passive. That said, you should, however, not wait until he uses his ult to Riposte it. If you had taken advantage of his handle range and slowed his attack speed down with your Riposte, he will have a lot of trouble stacking his passive, which will make his ultimate deal much less damage if he tries to fight you without full stack. You should slow down his passive stacking rather than trying to riposte the ult, as he is also very dangerous with his passive stacked and can easily kill you even without his ult.

Nasus can become a challenge if the Fiora player was not able to Riposte his Wither, or is unable to hit the vitals, especially if Nasus has his Fury of the Sands activated. However, avoiding extended trades will allow the Fiora player to gain advantage in lane by poking him down and then all in-ing him.

Poppy's high defense early game makes it hard for Fiora to get any damage through. Her high base damage and low cooldowns in the early levels also make it hard for the Fiora player to gain any advantage early. But as long as Fiora is careful, Poppy should not be able to find any kills in lane.

Singed's damage racks up quickly in an extended trade, the Fiora player should always only fight him when a full spell rotation is up, and only trade briefly to avoid taking unnecessary damages from his Poison Trail. If you find yourself unable to catch up to him, then back off immediately.

Sion's attacks can be easily dodged by the Fiora player, and should not give Fiora much trouble. However, the Fiora player should still be careful trying to poke or doing extended trades early due to his low cooldowns and high base damage.

Volibear has good burst damage and sustained damage to go against Fiora in lane, especially with Ignite. However, his lack of range means that Fiora is able to evade his attacks easily and go in once his spells are down.

Wukong has a high amount of burst, but it can be mitigated easily through Riposte. After that, due to his high cooldowns, Fiora can easily try to chase him down if he attempts to throw a spell rotation at Fiora.

Aatrox's telegraphed attacks make it very easy to play around them. Though you should still try to avoid them and only using your Riposte to counter the ones that you are unable to dodge. As long as you dodge his attacks, you will win most of the engages easily.

Gnar is considered a favourable matchup for Fiora at the time due to Gnar being very weak in the current patch. The Fiora player should find no trouble against him as you should be able to out damage him every step of the way as long as you don't allow yourself to be kited. I.e. Stick to him.

Most of Irelia's strength comes from her passive, which allows her to almost always out trade you by just auto attacking. However, since it's very telegraphed, you should try to fight her once her passive is down, and avoid her when she has it stacked. You should be able to out trade her almost every time as long as you follow this rule.

Though Kayle is mostly a ranged matchup, she lacks the tool to escape you as long as you hit your Riposte. Her damage is also lacking early game which makes it harder for her to punish your mistake. You can play aggressively without much risks.

Kled has an easily ripostable cc that allows you out trade him almost every fight. As long as the Fiora player avoid letting him stack his passive to get Skaarl back once he is dismounted, you should be able to easily kill him once you get your spells back.

Maokai does not have enough damage to out trade Fiora. Fiora can also easily gain a kill as long as she was able to stun Maokai, making this an easy lane to get through as long as the Fiora player does not allow Maokai to spam abilities to whittle her down.

Ornn's abilities are easy to dodge, making it hard for Ornn to get any meaningful trade in. However, the Fiora player should be careful about doing any extended trades especially in the early game due to his low cooldowns.

Ryze is able to wave clear quickly from range, therefore it's hard for the Fiora player to make any trade without overextending. However, his low damage output at the moment makes it hard for Ryze to turn that into a lead.

Shen has the ability to negate your damage while dishing out decent damage of his own, making it hard to win trades with Shen is able to disengage on his own terms. However, since he lacks sustain, a Fiora player can force him out of lane by playing aggressively around his cooldowns.

Swain lacks any damage to gain any kill pressure on Fiora, and his lack of mobility allows the Fiora player to easily gap close and stick to Swain during any fights early. Fiora should find this lane no trouble at all and should be able to win most fights.

Yasuo's damage mostly comes from being able to take extended trades through minions. As long as the Fiora player takes note of this and avoid trading auto for auto, the Fiora player should find this lane no trouble as Yasuo lacks substantial burst damage.

Dr. Mundo simple does not have enough damage to out trade Fiora in lane. The Fiora player can easily kill him due to him being immobile, and the true damage from Conqueror simply makes it easy for the Fiora player to get through his defenses in the early game.

Garen is one of the easiest matchups because most of his damage is avoidable, coupled with his high cooldowns and low pressure, the Fiora player should find no trouble against Garen at all even with enemy jungle pressure.

First, I'd like to say that thank you all readers for taking your time to read this guide, without the readers, this guide will serve no purpose. I have put a lot of time and work into it, my goal has always been to help players and I realize I have the knowledge and resource to accomplish the goal.

Secondly, I'd like to thank my friends from League and the wonderful crowd of the Fiora Mains club (thanks to TheIvyX for shouting me out, his guide is linked here), I have only gathered the motivation to write this guide because of my discovery of /r/fioramains, I figured that I would share what I know with people who also share my enthusiasm.

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